n. 25B6; noun a business venture : ENTERPRISE, undertaking, project, scheme, operation, endeavour, speculation, plunge, gamble, experiment.
25B6; verb
we ventured across the moor : SET OUT, go, travel, journey.
may I venture an opinion? : PUT FORWARD, advance, proffer, offer, air, suggest, submit, propose, moot, ventilate.
I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me : DARE, make so bold as, presume; take the liberty of; informal stick one's neck out, go out on a limb.